Sexual selection targets cetacean pelvic bones

Evolution

Volumn 68, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3296-3306

  Dines, James P ^a,b   Otárola Castillo, Erik ^c,d   Ralph, Peter ^b   Alas, Jesse ^b,e   Daley, Timothy ^b   Smith, Andrew D ^b   Dean, Matthew D ^b  

^a NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e West Adams Preparatory High School   (United States)

Author keywords

Morphological evolution; Sexual conflict; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

CETACEA;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CETACEA; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; PELVIC GIRDLE; PENIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CETACEA; FEMALE; GENITALIA, MALE; MALE; PELVIC BONES; PENIS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TESTIS;

EID: 84910611551     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12516     Document Type: Article

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